<clippath>

The <clipPath> SVG element defines a clipping path. A clipping path is used/referenced using the clip-path property.

The clipping path restricts the region to which paint can be applied. Conceptually, any parts of the drawing that lie outside of the region bounded by the currently active clipping path are not drawn.

A clipping path is conceptually equivalent to a custom viewport for the referencing element. Thus, it affects the rendering of an element, but not the element's inherent geometry. The bounding box of a clipped element (meaning, an element which references a <clipPath> element via a clip-path property, or a child of the referencing element) must remain the same as if it were not clipped.

By default, pointer-events must not be dispatched on the clipped (non-visible) regions of a shape. For example, a circle with a radius of 10 which is clipped to a circle with a radius of 5 will not receive "click" events outside the smaller radius.

Usage context

Categories	None
Permitted content	Any number of the following elements, in any order: Animation elements Descriptive elements Shape elements <text>, <use>

Attributes

Global attributes

• Conditional processing attributes
• Core attributes
• Presentation attributes
• class
• style
• externalResourcesRequired
• transform

Specific attributes

• clipPathUnits

DOM Interface

This element implements the SVGClipPathElement interface.

Examples

SVG

<svg width="120" height="120" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <defs>
    <clipPath id="myClip">
      <circle cx="30" cy="30" r="20"/>
      <circle cx="70" cy="70" r="20"/>
    </clipPath>
  </defs>

  <rect x="10" y="10" width="100" height="100"
      clip-path="url(#myClip)"/>
</svg>

<style>
svg {
  border: 3px dashed #999;
}
svg > rect:hover {
  fill: green;
}
</style>

Result

SVG

<svg width="100" height="100" >
  <defs>
    <clipPath id="myClip">
      <rect x="0" y="10" width="100" height="35" />
      <rect x="0" y="55" width="100" height="35" />
    </clipPath>
  </defs>
  <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="50" clip-path="url(#myClip)" />
</svg>

Result

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
CSS Masking Module Level 1 The definition of '<clipPath>' in that specification.	Candidate Recommendation
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) The definition of '<clipPath>' in that specification.	Recommendation	Initial definition

Browser compatibility

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Related

• <mask>
• clip-path